fake reviews are an issue, but so are low-quality reviews. for example i've seen quite a few books with a modest handful of reviews have their stars tanked by

fake reviews are an issue, but so are low-quality reviews. for example i've seen quite a few books with a modest handful of reviews have their stars tanked by some terrible bad-faith reviews by people who take an issue with the book that isn't directly about the quality or merit of the content. (this really shows up in political and philosophy areas.) this isn't the end of the world if i take the time to carefully survey reviews, but i just don't have time to give every book due process. few people really do. i really wish i had some way to ignore individual reviews as well as everything from a reviewer - 'ignore' meaning that the site discounts their contribution to scoring when rendered for me.